Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Thandor
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 00:00

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Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> spake thusly:
>For debugging, for example.  After trying to do the precise same
>movements about ten times to reproduce a bug, you will appreciate
>being able to feed the program a recorded series of mouse movements
>and key presses.
>
>And it makes sense to debug -all- programs.

We're talking about end users here, not developers. The developer can quite
easy (OK, maybe I'm using the word easily a little losely here) put
whatever interface they like on it. The proverbial "average user" can't. If
your average user is going to be using a program interactively, and even
"advanaced" users are going to use it interactively 99% of the time, I
consider it a fair tradeoff to use something like ncurses which gives a
nice interface at the expense of ease of non interactive use.

In the development of the above said program, yes, you may wwant to run it
non interactively. But if it's well written, then you should be able to
test the underlying code seperately from the interface, and then release
the program with the nice interface.

The ability to script things from the command line is nice, but it's not
the be all and end all of computing. Sometimes it's not worth the
tradeoffs.

-- 
- Thandor, of Donuts Inc:
Through emulation of Homer Simpson we shall attain perfection. 

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From: homer_j_simpson@my-dejanews.com (Thandor)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/27
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